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fortunately doesn't sound anything mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only. the un condemns the killing of two russian journalists in eastern ukraine calling for a full investigation the die during army shelling while filming refugees fleeing from the area. islamist militants are closing in on the iraqi capital ravaging through half of the country of a terrifying place personnel at the u.s. embassy in baghdad are braced for a possible attack. so this hour the king's speech the farewell version spanish monarch one carlos officially leave the throne after the senate approves of the cation we were called some of his other heads of states more colorful statements from.
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life from our new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day welcome to our team international i mean you know neal our top story the u.n. security council is urging an investigation into violence against journalists in eastern ukraine after a crew from a russian t.v. channel were killed by army shelling near the city although lugansk the cameraman who's the only survivor from his team says the attack targeted a group of refugees and he believes it was not accidental fire. the crew was filming the evacuation of refugees when a shell hit their group now these are images of civilians leaving the scene seconds before the explosion signed engineer on for lotion died immediately reporter was
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taken to hospital with a severe injury but died on the operating table thirty minutes later you're how the common man described what happened we hear clearly who knows in four months we went to the place where according to information we got there were refugees self-defense groups were helping the refugees to flee the areas under attack and when i reached the forefront the self-defense activists told me to hide behind a big car in a film from that spot this self-defense activists raised his hand to show the refugees the safe path and at this moment the first more time exploded and damaged his hand our journalists stayed further away at the checkpoint and i turned my head and i saw that the second and third more towers went off exactly where they were i didn't see my colleagues as my view of them was blocked by trees i only managed to film people drag it away a self-defense activist he had no legs there was a road between us between our journalist and me i could hear more cars exploding
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all the time they both had press written on their clothes but that didn't save them . witnesses say the shell exploded right at the feet of the signed engineer on turn from the ocean he was twenty seven years old reporter igor corn and look at least behind his wife and seven year old daughter. the killings have triggered international i cry the organization for security and cooperation in europe called on kiev to find those responsible and hold them accountable and here's the reaction from a new york based committee to protect journalists and also condemned the killing and urged safety for journalists working in ukraine reporters without borders colt's on a probe into the deaths as well and said the five months against journalists has reached on president levels russians envoy to the u.n. to tell the truth can set a little earlier than conditions for reporters in ukraine are worse than when they were during the iraq invasion but the journalists with
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a lot of experience in other conflict areas say that this for the first time and the few. being done to get the government forces never before them about is i mean if they were pointing out that even during saddam hussein times when baghdad was a being. invaded by the u.s. troops of the journalists could the could operate them. no physical problems arose for them from the government this is not the case a bit until now nike has a military offensive in eastern ukraine shows no signs of letting up three civilians an elderly woman on a married couple were killed on the ice scared of sloviansk on tuesday weeks of continued shelling have devastated the city with were churches also coming under fire since kiev launched its operation in april and here is footage indeed from the neighboring city of hama taurus local militia say nine people were seriously injured when shalt hit self-defense checkpoints on a residential area. ukraine's foreign minister who made headlines for his own sciri
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remark about the russian prison may have to start clearing his desk that is because president petro poroshenko is apparently thinking of sucking him let's get the details from. this so it doesn't look as if ukraine's foreign minister is in a spot of trouble absolutely and all of the after he made this disparaging remark joining in the chorus of people writing russian embassy in kiev let's have a listen. now as far as we know in fact even to now is a person who he wants to see as the potential minister of minister of foreign affairs now this is also happening when part of what goes announcement goes
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announcement that there could be a cease fire in southeastern ukraine at least has said that he is planning to stop military action in south in the south east in order to give time to and to government protesters to lay down arms again this is a quote from the ukrainian president and all of this is happening right after a phone call apparently which was made by russian president put into late on monday however we cannot at this point. all of these events together and it is hard to say whether or not britain's phone call has somehow influenced the decisions that are being made by. or in english with the latest thank you. and if you're watching our team ukraine be ready to switch to our online content kiev is planning to bomb four more russian channels including our own head to our t dot com for up to minute updates on the volatile situation in the country.
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moving on isis militants have launched an attack on iraq's largest oil refinery in the north of the country taking control of seventy five percent of the site meanwhile baghdad remains in a state of high alert with jihadist closing in on the capital many employees have been evacuated from the u.s. embassy which is believed to be a likely target of the radicals it comes during a week which is seen militants taking over one major city after another are tough enough reports. armed to the teeth determined to carry on the march across iraq the islamic state in syria also known as isis is quickly emerging as one of the world's most powerful jihad us groups the group's goal just what the name implies an islamic sunni caliphate stretching across the middle east isis already controlled large swaths of land in syria and iraq's anbar province last week they moved on iraq's north.
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seemingly overnight isis captured the second largest city of mosul more than half a million residents were forced to flee. we were afraid of isis and its camp because they have no mercy there are people they killed they have no conscience that was just the start after mosul a lightning speed advance towards baghdad with cities and towns falling to isis along the way as iraqi soldiers fled their posts they left behind tanks humvees trucks and weapons paid for by the americans and now in the hands of isis the militants have their supporters to the shiite dominated government of prime minister nouri al maliki has alienated iraq's sunni population isis is also believed to receive financial support from sympathetic gulf monarchies and with
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iran backing the iraqi government there's fear the internal conflict could become a regional one all sides are bracing for the worst in the capital shiite militia men are responding to a call to arms from their religious leaders ready to defend their capital and their faith the iraqi army is also fighting back but this means airstrikes against sunni cities and that could make the already sectarian conflict go from bad to worse sitting out the fight at least for now are the americans with the hottest determined to press on the question is for how long. lucie county. now the u.s. has already sent a hundred soldiers but almost twice as many set to arrive later but those are not combat troops washington's all to receive the warning from qatar that any military intervention to prop up the iraqi government would effectively mean war on the entire sunni world now the middle east is of course
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a mixture of various religious groups marked here on the map by the sea in red are the countries where sunni muslims make up the majority those include qatar and of course america's closest ally in the region saudi arabia while iraq is currently under shiite rule and isis obviously wants not changed washington is now considering teaming up with iran to prevent that military affairs experts are commercial with the current turmoil in iraq is breaking up traditional alliances and creating some strange partnerships the us has more interests. to. cheer her on behind the scenes gurus who consume. who are very unhappy. marriage goes things who. it's very ironic because not just only a few weeks ago the. congressman will never. be run as
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a terrorist nation never. know who. grease the so-called terrorist nation who caused the mourners. of the riaa this week it's going to be very confused everybody isn't terrorists. do go out which terrorists the word. later in the program the dark secrets of guantanamo rise to the surface as a group of american students on the professor dig into the mysterious deaths of three detainees at the infamous facility back in two thousand and six the details coming up just ahead. another big story of the day the spanish parliament has given its approval to the abdication of king one carlist two stepping down after almost four decades on the throne must republican protests are expected later today in madrid ahead of us on prince philip in through the money to get more let's
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cross. to chef skee who is in the spanish capital for us alexey so a switch on the throne today but a lot of people want to see indeed a lot more change than not. well the fact that we have a more than seven thousand policemen and national guard troops in central madrid speaks volumes clearly people are unhappy with the current government it's been a long going thing it's been going on for several years in fact and this is not just about the change of the name in the palace as they say this is about changing the system the people are unhappy with the current government they blame it for the poor living conditions in fact more than six million people in spain are currently unemployed and this is angering the protests the the. the royal family did not it's do itself any favors being involved in several corruption scandals and the fact that the prime minister of the country said that a referendum on the country's status whether it should remain as a monarchy or where they should call revert to
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a republican form of governance would not be held is also angering the protests more than sixty two percent of the population as for recent polls clearly wanting the country to hold this referendum to revert back to the republican form of governance and that is what they are protesting against we spoke to some of the republican activists and they said that despite the official ban on any mass gatherings in the next two days in the in the capital of madrid they will still hold their protest in fact they they are holding a popular referendum as we speak with ballot boxes in the streets to determine the country's status and it's been before we've seen protests in madrid over the past several weeks on june the eighth tens of thousands hit the street paralyzed the streets of the spanish capital and we are pretty much expecting the same thing to happen either tonight as some are suggesting or definitely too moral in the central square where you are to the side with tens of thousands will be there and make sure you keep track of what is happening here in the spanish capital. with the latest from madrid. many cass died in whether the crime prince will restore the image of
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the royal family which was tarnished during his father's last three years on the throne but the spot all the controversies of one carlos reign cording to one editor specializing in the spanish monarchy he will still be remembered for the good he brought to the country. came to dictatorship by. it's true that he hopes to open. to. the war know how a. tree. play the political role. with the arrival of democracy i don't think. this. going king is one of europe's most colorful royals among many famous slip ups in two thousand and seven the house venezuela's president hugo chavez to literally
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shut up but he's in good company the u.k.'s of edinburgh famously told british students in china they risk looking like the locals if they stayed too long in the country and the current king of sweden while he criticized by some media outlets in south for being a bit of a party goer defended himself to the press saying there's a broad definition to sex and strip clubs. with the old royals being consigned to the history books questions are being asked as to whether the next generation will help europe's hereditary monarchy survive in the twenty first century where analysts just a click away on a website. america is trying hard to convince the world that it's g.m. products are not as bad as everyone thinks eugenic li and homespun fit even rich by anonymous have been designed to improve the nutrition of people in east africa later in the program this hour find out if the motives behind them are as good as the golden but that's themselves.
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on air and in the financial world. to moment cannot stop the advance only taken from the demand to trade is not going to get. in life there are . welcome back to the program now i made continuous violence in the past to close the guantanamo bay prison it seems the us administration has been covering up atrocities at the camp in june two thousand and six three detainees were fined hanged in their cells in apartment suicide but the latest independent report provides evidence that that's where the result of torture on a compartment massaging of language is making it difficult to find the truth in two thousand and two the u.s. department of defense stopped reporting suicide attempts cover rising them x. all of south harm the word torture has been replaced with an interrogation
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techniques that's a quote when it comes to notorious practice of water boarding not to mention hunger strikes not one tunnel officials not name a long term non religious fost meanwhile the painful force feeding procedure on those hunger strikers is being labelled as internal feeding or medical management of prisoners with weight loss we talked to president professor excuse me mark denbeaux who's probe into two thousand and six that's cast doubts on the official story of the fates what we have is compelling evidence however of the men they didn't appear in the manner that the government claims that the government claims they own themselves in their cells by committing suicide and the problem with that is there were five guards watching twenty four cells not all of which were occupied and there were five guards and alternatives including several walking
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the short little corridor because the video and if you read through the n.c.i. as investigators try to you would read that the men were have been dead more than two hours when they were brought to the clinic and the rigor mortis. you know if you have five girls guarding or eighteen to twenty people and three of them. are flipped hanging in their cells for hours people should go to jail because the military failed to comply with their obligation. and the u.s. state of georgia an inmate on death row has been executed despite the continued controversy over the effectiveness of the drugs used in lethal injections an appeals court rejected marcus whelan's request for a stay of execution after the state refused to disclose details about the lethal injections being used it follows a botched execution in april when it took an oklahoma inmate more than forty minutes to die in agony after he was administered
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a youth cocktail of drugs. on to our website we go when it comes to be internet the f.b.i. is trying not to be lost in translation decency has put together a glossary of online slime it's r t dot com to check out extracts from the f.b.i.'s twitter shorthand some entries may appear unusual to see at least also online. wideawake cicely's month at erupts. into the sky and reminding people it's not going to fall asleep check out the fire breathing footage on our. plate right on the scene. of the first strike. and i think what you're. playing on our reporters on the uninstall the lead player in the little.
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to have you with us here on seeds today i'm sure. test groups in the u.s. are about to take a bite from a so-called super banana by going on a six week human trials genetically enhanced the victim in that rich claim he's been on this will improve the nutrition of people in east africa but michael hudson senior staff scientist the consumer union thinks the initiative is nothing more than a publicity stunt simply designed to improve the reputation of g.m. giants things like golden rice or golden bananas are attempts to say oh we can use this technology for a useful purpose that will help the poor so i see it more as propaganda purposes
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and i think the reason that they were trying so desperately with the genetic engineering is it does have a bad name eighty five percent of the global acreage in engineered crops are all herbicide tolerant they're designed to be sprayed with herbicides they're doing they're designed to have you spray more pesticides on them part of the problem is in the in the united states for example we don't require safety assessments or feeding studies before these products are allowed on the market before these are even fed to people they should go through a safety assessment. and that you know not only do animals before they're given to humans because in other countries this would not be allowed. microsoft than for other u.s. tech companies are seeking legal protection from the n.s.a. to hide their overseas data from snooping it's a sharp u. turn from a year before when we learned that the i.t.
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firms were cooperating with the n.s.a. one technician from telecoms giant eighteen t. blew the whistle even before edward snowden's revelations came and you can catch our interview with marc klein later today on breaking the set. eight hundred eighty was given retroactive immunity for its cooperation with the government regarding illegal surveillance and pretty unprecedented move there how did this decision influence private public surveillance cooperation today and put a legal standpoint what they were doing illegally before that there were other companies that might have watched what we see just. that they couldn't resist any more because congress put its own stamp of approval over the holes at this point mark do you think it's possible for the government to internally reform itself to not violate the constitution and our privacy rights. you know i'm convinced this is not possible to do and sort of always forms these it's so they know it's they need
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to repress to get ready this is just what they need to run their system. to other headlines starting with the news that a boat that has capsized off malaysia's western coast forty two people are here to draw and in the instant one rescue boat was quick to the scene and two more on their way the sunken wooden vessel was not designed for open sea it was carrying ninety seven indonesians including women and children officials say the passengers were illegal migrant workers trying to return home ahead of the muslim holy month of ramadan. clashes between police and followers of an anti taliban preacher in eastern pakistan of left at least eight people dead another eighty five have been injured police fired shots and tear gas from supporters of the character fewster mubarak aides around the scholar's complex account of that base preacher has a ninety pounds to return to pakistan next week to the rallies against the
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government. i. don't want any world cup protests in rio de janeiro ended in scuffles with police demonstrators were heading to the plan protest site a couple of honor when police raided their bus they were being escorted away filings flared and more than fifteen arrests were made people are angry at the high cost of staging the competition. up next an hour to international see how the news is made in the latest episode of news. eugenics but eugenics vulgarize ation of darwin science punishment for an uncommitted crying i was never the least to learn to believe in eighty feebleminded
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